Thursday's BEST BETS: NBA and NHL Playoffs + NFL Draft + MLB
The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast
CBS Sports, Sports Betting, Sports Gambling, Picks
4.5 • 778 Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2026
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Join Sia Nejad, Amags, David Bearman, Tom Casale, and Larry Hartstein as they dish out their picks for the NBA, NHL, MLB, and MORE!
(0:00) Intro
(4:37) Amags' MLB Prop
(8:21) Tom's NHL Pick
(11:10) Free Sportsline NBA Pick
(14:03) David's College Baseball and NFL Draft Bets
(18:34) NFL Draft Predictions
(19:55) Sia's MLB Pick
(21:46) Larry's NBA Props
(26:08) Model HR Chart
(28:37) David and Tom's NFL Draft Picks
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning, everyone. |
| 0:10.2 | Welcome to the Early Edge. |
| 0:11.7 | We are brought to you by BetMGM, Make It Legendary. |
| 0:15.1 | Well, I know I drop this legendary word all the time, but I got to tell you, with the exception |
| 0:19.4 | of one or two days here and there, |
| 0:21.0 | over the last six weeks, our recap screens have been very good. And here's another one. |
| 0:26.1 | Prop stars hits his pick. Mike McClure hits his pick. Sportsline goes two for two. And we go five |
| 0:32.0 | and two overall, all winning recap screens so far this week. And I got to tell you, we have such a well-rounded show today. And we got the NFL draft tonight. So, of course, we're bringing an NFL draft pick here as well. But we've got NHL. We've got MLB. We've got college baseball. We've got NBA. And we've got David Beerman, A-Mags, Larry Hartstein, and Tom Casale. I'm not even sure. David, I'm going to start with you, actually, because you are making this show even more well-rounded, because you've got a college baseball pick today, and you've got an NFL draft pick today. How you doing, buddy? I'm doing good. Happy to be here, you know, mixing it up a little bit with some college baseball and some NFL draft, especially after the bad beat last night with Jalen Williams and the NBA. We're going to go to other sports tonight. All right. Tom Casale, you were on with me yesterday. We were actually talking college football with Chip Patterson, and it was exhilarating. What did you come with today? NHL? Yeah, I got NHL and I got a little NFL draft. So, yeah, I'm counting down the days to college football, though. That got me excited yesterday, see you. It was a fun segment. I don't know if that's up on our sports line YouTube channel quite yet, but we're going to have a lot of college football and NFL content coming your way. And Larry, correct me if I'm wrong, but on CBS Sports Network today, I know I'm hosting a show at 1 o'clock. Are you on that show with me? I am. I'm going to be talking to NBA beds for tonight, NBA futures for the rest of the playoffs. And I guess we can go ahead and just give out the therapy right now. Yes, David Beerman, you had a bad beat last night on Jalen Williams getting hurt, a half a point shy. |
| 2:03.5 | But you've been in this business a long time. You know that's how it goes. I know how it goes, but yeah, last night was brutal. You got 21 at half time. You got 23, two minutes into the third quarter, and then you lay up, misses it. Been in the business for a while, but that one hurt one hurt. Amags, you've been in the business a little bit here for sports line. I got, you know, listen, we don't have to like break news right now, but I got some news before the show that we might be seeing you, maybe even a little bit more on these shows and just in general. Not that we don't see enough, but I'd like to see you more regardless. |
| 2:34.8 | Amags, here's what we're going to do. |
| 2:37.0 | I'm not going to break that news for you right now. I'm just telling everybody, hey, maybe we'll see a little bit more of Amags. I'd like to get to some picks right away. And I know you're going to get so many baseball picks and questions. So I just like you to lead off here with your MLB pick and then we'll go from there. |
| 2:52.7 | Yeah, absolutely. |
| 2:53.5 | It'll be great to see you guys a little bit more. Very excited for that and some stuff that we'll be doing for day baseball, maybe a little bit more regularly. So very excited for some stuff to come. But yeah, we've got the Yankees and Red Sox one more time. And I had to throw on my |
| 3:08.4 | lucky hat here. I wore this to the Yankee game, as some of you guys know, last weekend. And an |
| 3:14.1 | ode to Larry when we went to the Yankees meetup and he had gone down the stairs in whatever |
| 3:19.9 | fashion, some say he dove, some say he fell. I was diving down the stairs for a home run ball as well |
| 3:26.1 | from Cody Bellinger, but somebody that hit a home run in that same game was Ben Rice. And if you guys |
| 3:32.1 | were watching the game the other night, man, Rice had a really rough go against Connolly early and |
| 3:37.2 | some of those lefties from the bullpen there for the Red Sox. And two of his four strikeouts on the night were actually on pitches that were outside of the zone. But because the Yankees lost their challenges, they really couldn't do anything to help him out with that. So I'm going back to Ben Rice tonight who got a day off yesterday. I think this spot, he should be back in the line. If it's yet to be |
| 3:58.4 | confirmed, but he should be this spot for him. Just get your head right after an 0-4 with |
| 4:03.7 | four strikeouts. You take yesterday off. You come back today against Peyton Tolly, who comes up from |
| 4:08.7 | AAA. And yeah, he's had a few okay starts in AAA. He's been striking some batters out, but he still has allowed |
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